The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz! Movie & TV Quizzes

Fingers on buzzers. How much do you know about quizzes in movies and TV shows?

By Louisa Mellor | August 7, 2024 | | 0

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Wednesdays. The post-lunch slump of any working week. They’re too far from the weekend to taste the promised freedom, and too far from Mondays to kid yourself that a fresh start is still possible. What you need on Wednesdays, every Wednesday, at 12 o’clock BST and 7 o’clock ET, is a bit of distraction and a pat on the back. You need The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz.

12 original movie, TV and geeky questions, on a chosen theme, once a week, every week. Join us to test your trivia knowledge, have a bit of fun, compare results, let us know what you think (Too easy? Too long? Not enough questions about Police Academy?) and – when we eventually get leaderboards sorted – make others gasp at your trivia mastery. There may even be prizes in the pipeline…

Week four: quizzes that have featured in the movies and on TV. Fingers on buzzers!

Quizzes in Movies and TV

1. On which US TV quiz show, in which contestants are given answers and respond in the form of questions, did Rosie Perez’s character Gloria appear on in Spike Lee movie White Men Can’t Jump?

a) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
b) Jeopardy!
c) Cash Cab
d) Family Feud

2. Dev Patel, the star of Danny Boyle’s quiz show movie Slumdog Millionaire, released his directorial debut in 2024. What is the film’s simian title?

a) Monkey Man
b) Mark of the Gorilla
c) 12 Monkeys
d) Monkey Trouble

3. Which American actor, born in 1936 and the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, directed the 1994 movie Quiz Show, based on a TV cheating scandal?

a) Jack Nicholson
b) Clint Eastwood
c) Gene Hackman
d) Robert Redford

4. James McAvoy and Benedict Cumberbatch starred in which 2006 British comedy film based on a David Nicholls novel and themed around TV quiz show University Challenge?

a) Starter for 1
b) Starter for 12
c) Starter for 10
d) Starter for Dessert

5. In which anarchic British 1980s comedy series did Scumbag College battle Footlights College in University Challenge?

a) Blackadder
b) Red Dwarf
c) The Young Ones
d) Only Fools and Horses

6. In 2005 UK sitcom The Office, David Brent and Chris Finch’s quiz team name is “The Dead Parrots” in reference to a famous sketch from which other cult British comedy TV show?

a) Monty Python’s Flying Circus
b) The Goon Show
c) The Fast Show
d) A Bit of Fry and Laurie

7. Which 1980s US movie family win fictional game show “Pig in a Poke” to go on a European Vacation that takes them through London, Paris, Bavaria and Rome?

a) The McAllisters
b) The Simpsons
c) The Addams
d) The Griswolds

8. Between 2021 and 2023, US gameshow Jeopardy was hosted by which The Big Bang Theory cast member?

a) Johnny Galecki
b) Mayim Bialik
c) Jim Parsons
d) Simon Helberg

9. Which British actor went from drunkenly hosting a pub quiz in UK sitcom Gavin & Stacey to becoming a host of The Late Late Show in the US?

a) John Oliver
b) Craig Ferguson
c) James Corden
d) Graham Norton

10. Awkwafina plays a game show genius in 2023 comedy movie Quiz Lady. In which New York borough is her semi-autobiographical sitcom set?

a) Queens
b) Brooklyn
c) The Bronx
d) Manhattan

11. Matthew Macfadyen played the “Coughing Major” in a TV version of the real-life Who Wants to be a Millionaire? scandal. In which Cole Porter musical feat. Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, did the titular song first appear?

a) Can-Can
b) Anything Goes
c) Kiss Me, Kate
d) High Society

12. A child genius wets himself live on TV in fictional quiz show What Do Kids Know? in which 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson film, the title of which features a flowering plant species?

a) The Blue Dahlia
b) Driving Miss Daisy
c) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
d) Magnolia